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Couch Potatoes and Limp Lettuces Leaves
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Midsummer Hill, southern end of the Malverns
Up the lane towards Midsummer hill, soon such views westwards – … out on the fort top – on top of the world …
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QUEUE
QUEUE Unique is the English letter ‘Q’ to exist in words it needs “U’ as its general companion or “Mam” puts a zero on the evaluation With ‘eue’...
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The Garden of Eden
I was in the garden, which was rank and stank. Shifted a rock and then a plank. Stood on a dog turd, up to my shank. Returned to the house, blankety...
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In a stew
Tallulah, like most turnips, is a rather sensitive soul. Root vegetables in general have an unfair reputation as being somewhat hard, knobbly, and...
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Have a Pea Princess!
My daughter reallly was and sitll is an earth-bound angel, but as a child she stubbornly refused to each vegetables...
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A Satisfied Life
Once upon a decade or two or three, 70 years ago I was a whippersnapper eager to learn - be happy knowledgeable successful in the world was my dream...
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Friday Night was Biscuit Night
My mum, she loved Marks & Spencer. She’d always say, ‘You can’t beat them for value.’ She was a brilliant shoplifter, my mum.
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When I Was Flush
I once purchased a pair of trousers, a jacket made entirely of playing cards. People seemed to like it. Without doubt, it went on to become my...
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The Worry
I was in Boyd’s Stores watching someone receive good news on their phone when Leventhal parked up beside me with news of Gerry Purcell’s death. I...
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The easy way to stop drinking
I’ve been wanting to give the drink up for a bit now but I can’t stop going to the pub. I’ve tried before but it never lasts long so I knew what to...
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1:3:9 Ascension (Part 1)
Damp. She had no idea what was going on or where she was but she was most certainly damp. Her ears were ringing, her vision blurred beyond...
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I’ve been talking to you again
I used to talk to you so much I can’t stop now And don’t worry I know you’ve gone But I can still feel your presence Especially when I’m gardening. I...
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lonely gentle tears
quenching cold rain you're joyful tears dew of mercy on eden's misty morning wooing living loving longing eyes new life springs overflows jubilates...
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Churros, chickens and choices (Bring Out Your Dead series - Part 6)
In which Amber sulks, Josiah declines an offer and D.S. Stone has his day ruined.
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Clouds
Leaves twinkle like eyes then stop as if to say: no we weren’t - you’re mistaken, three clouds rise like round loaves of bread skimming the...
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The Downfall Of Russia (The Madness of Tsar Putinplot!) by Alfred N.Muggins
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26/4/22 Vladimir Putinplot looks into a Crystal Ball, which he has acquired from a cave somewhere in the Ural Mountains. Apparently Genghis Khan once...
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No Gift Outright
In the mode of Hugh MacDiarmid’s reply to A E Housman’s Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries; taking The Gift Outright as its subject, with apology to Robert Frost. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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Bare Knuckles Boxing
Chapter XII- “Buffalo Beachers” Bare knuckle boxing on the beach Boxing was generally illegal in 19th century America, with fights held in secret...
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A Crash Course, In Spider Training.
When I met Paul, he had lots of animals and pets, including rats, monitor lizard, very large cockroaches, a crow, a German shepherd, four large...
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